Newsprint price hike prompts no subscription rise
Our Daily Bread reports a January newsprint cost increase of 4.4 per ton to Hope keeping current subscription prices unchanged. The note details rising market costs from 134 to 140 and a cumulative 7.4 per ton rise, plus competitive pricing shifts by the Arkansas Gazette and regional papers.
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Te Star
Perkins. Goodwin Co
Southland Paper Mills, Inc
Lufkin
Texas
International Paper Co
United States
Canada
Memphis
Pine Bluff
Hot Springs
Hope
Arkansas Gazette
the Gazette
The
Gazette
Nixon says Wallace not fit to be president in TV hit
Associated Press reports from Atlanta that Richard Nixon declared George C Wallace not fit to be president while acknowledging Wallace could still be a major rival in the November election. Nixon, speaking across the South, condemned Wallace’s pledge to physically hurt protesters and floated a two man televised debate but then joked it would not occur.
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Walter R. Mears
Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
Richard M. Nixon
South
Alabama
George C. Wallace
United States
White House
Nixon
Wallace
Jim
Hubert H. Humphrey
Free Fish on Beard's Lake Saturday
Game Warden Ben Waller Jr announces a free fish event at Beard's Lake on Saturday October 6. The public is invited to take a legal catch free of charge, with two fishing licenses required, as the lake is overstocked with rough fish mainly shad and will be restocked. The event starts at a.m.
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Beard's Lake
Yellow Creek
Ben Waller Jr
Wallace LeMay ticket sparks nuclear weapon debate
Gen Curtis LeMay, chosen by George C. Wallace as running mate, argues a nuclear weapon is a usable tool. Responding, Nixon, Humphrey, Muskie and Agnew challenge or defend Wallace’s stance while LeMay faces ballot timing issues in several states.
WRs Wife Mrs Britt to Host Free Box Supper
Mrs Winthrop Rockefeller and Mrs Footsie Britt plan a free informal box supper for area women on Monday October 7 at 6 30 P M in Fair Park Coliseum. Mrs Helen Hatch will be mistress of ceremonies Miss Peggy King will sing and both hostesses will speak to invited women from Hope and Hempstead County.
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Winthrop Rockefeller
Footsie’ Britt
Fair Park Coliseum
Arkansas
Hope
Helen Hatch
Peggy King
Frank King
Rockefeller
Britt
Hope and
Hermpstead County
Pick Your Pet Panic- There Are Plenty of Phobias for Everyone
Hal Boyle surveys the age of anxiety with a playful look at phobias. He lists humorous examples like monophobes, aerophobia, trichopathophobe, photanglophobia, lupophobia, apetrophobia, lyssophobia, cremiophobia, and more as ways people classify fears. The column riffs on how fear shapes social status and behavior.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Ice Station
Agai Sr
Wall Street Figures Well Rounded
New York AP report notes a California trend dubbed the sweater girl derby as wall street workers meet in New York. Gert Stotts a 36 year old from Burbank 5 feet 10 inches 150 pounds says she plans a noon stroll with other women joining this trend sponsored by KGIL. A crowd of 4000 gathered at Broad and Wall Streets as two Ohio women were showcased by Cleveland radio to illustrate the spectacle.
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Ray Kohn
Associated Press
NEW York
California
Wall Street
Brooklyn
Gert Stotts
Burbank
Pase Bersby
Broad and
Wall Streets
Susansowski
Cleveland
WIXY
Humphrey says campaign has turned the corner
In a 15 day push Humphrey claims momentum while facing hecklers in Portland and Seattle. He concedes Nixon leads but cites big crowds in San Francisco and Charlotte and a Teamsters endorsement as signs of revival. Democratic leaders and McCarthy supporters hint at a possible endorsement as he heads toward Detroit for the World Series.
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Washington
Huebert H. Humphrey
Portland
Seattle
Ore
Richard M. Nixon
Humphrey
San Francisco
Charlotte
N.C
George Ball
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Senate
Mike Mansfield
McCarthy
MccCarthy
Paul O'Dwyer
Jacob K
West Virginia
Detroit
Lewis Child Still Under Intensive Care
Ten year old Jan Lewis remains in critical condition at Wadley Hospital in Texarkan after a Wednesday accident near Fulton. Her mother Rose Lewis and twin sister Ann, both ten, perished in the wreck along with Sissy Thurman a noted barrel racer from Bryan Texas. Robert Lewis, father, also injured, shows improvement at Branch General Hospital with chest injuries and six broken ribs. The family hails from Sulphur Oklahoma.
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Jan Lewis
Fulton
Wadley Hospital
Texarkana
Rose Lewis
Ann
Sissy Thurman
Bryan
Texas
Robert Lewis
Branch General Hospital
Lewis
Sulphur
Okla
Freezing Temperatures Reported Across Northern Arkansas
Temperatures dipped to 32 degrees in Fayetteville marking the first freeze of the fall under clear skies. Texarkana saw a high of 53 degrees with 1.16 inches of rain recorded. Dorado reported a low of 50 with 0.25 inches of rain. A cold front driven by a high pressure system is pushing cooler air across the state.
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Fayetteville
Texarkana
Dorado
Arkansas
Testimony Links 21 Communists to Chicago Riots
Washington AP report says a House subcommittee chair heard testimony that at least 21 Communists were involved in the clashes between antiwar protesters and Chicago police at the Democratic National Convention. He avoided naming individuals and gave unclear details on the source and timing of the testimony.
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Tom Seppy
Associated Press
Washington
House
Chicago
Richard Schord
D- Mo
Subcommittee
National
Evers Plades
Trolley Cars Burned by Mexicans
Mexico City faced a violent charge as students battled army troops near an Olympic field. Armored cars patrolled streets while snipers holed up in apartments, with reports of 27 to 40 dead and hundreds wounded. Authorities claimed 1,000 to 1,500 arrests as the Olympic Games approached.
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Stratford C. Jones
Associated Press
Mexico City
Olympic Field
Mexico
Avery Brundage
International Olympic Committee
Wepet
Campaign on LeMay name won’t appear on most ballots
AP News Digest reports Gen Curtis LeMay’s name will not appear on most state ballots despite his selection as George C Wallace’s vice presidential candidate. The piece notes advisers to Richard Nixon challenge claims that Hubert Humphrey leads eight states with 136 electoral votes. It also covers international resistance to Peru’s military leaders, unrest in Mexico City and a deadly Vietnam air collision, plus Czechoslovakia urging restraint at the UN and Nigeria’s war refugees.
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Associated Press
George C. Wallace
Curtis £. LeMay
LeMay
Air Force
Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Atlanta
White House
Hubert H. Humphrey
West Virginia
Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Wallace
Spiro T. Agnew
Missouri
Agnew
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Florida
Tennessee
Curtis LeMay
Olympic Field
Mexico City
Millwood Reservoir visitors and local business pledges for decorations
The weekly Corps of Engineers report shows 17 968 visitors to Millwood Reservoir with clear water and fair fishing. First ten firms pledge 30 to fund downtown Hope Christmas decorations, lighting 110 fixtures for full display. the 93rd Coast Guard Academy admissions cycle opens December 7 1968 with age and marital restrictions. several traffic accident details, university enrollments reaching historic highs, and county level student counts across Arkansas.
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Corps of Engineer
Millwood Reservoir
Hope Streets
Anderson + Frazier
Collier
Haynes Bros
Morgan & Lindsey
Moore Bros
Lehman's
Foster’s Shoe
J. C. Penney Co
KXAR
Scotts
2Nd
Main
Anderson-Frazier
Chamber of Commerce
United States Coast Guard Academy
New London
Connecticut
Collision in Air Kills 24 Americans
In Saigon, U.S. officials report a CH47 Chinook and an Air Force Caribou collided near Hue killing 24 Americans. The Air Force plane carried 13 dead, while 11 perished aboard the helicopter. 4 crewmen among the Caribou and 11 others died in the helicopter crash. Enemy forces reported heavy fighting along the Cambodian border with Allied casualties and ongoing operations.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Saison
U.S
Air Force
Hue
Leutenant
Cambo
Bomber Crashes Near Minot. Two Survive
A B52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base crashed and burned on a farm 12 miles northeast of Minot North Dakota around 2 a.m. EDT. The base said six crew members were aboard and two survived while four others were unaccounted for and the crash-site flames lit a bank of fire a hundred feet across near the farmhouse.
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Minot
N.D
Minot’ Air Force Base
North Dakota
Cay
Swarthwout
Ryneer
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